Support for telephone-receivers.



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SUPPORT FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, 1813.

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HENRY W. MUNOH, 0F ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK C. 'llIllNCI-I, OF HULL, MASSACHUSETTS, AND ONE-11.51111? TO MAR- CELLUS W. SPRINGER, 0F CAMBRIDGE,

MASSACHUSETTS.

SUPPORT FOR TELEPHONE-RECEIVERS.

Application filed June 23, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LllENRY W. Miiivcn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Arlington, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Supports for Telephone-Receivers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel support for a telephone receiver by which the receiver may be held at a persons ear while he is talking into the transmitter thus making it possible for said person to have the free use of both hands while using the telephone.

Devices for this general purpose have been heretofore devised and my present invention aims to produce a novel form of transmitter support all as will be more fully hereinafter described and then pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the drawings wherein l have illustrated a selected embodiment of the invention from which the principle thereof will be readily discerned, Figure 1 is a front view of a so-called desk stand having a device embodying my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a right hand side elevation of the receiver support. Fig. i is the left hand elevation. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view partly in section showing the manner of attaching the device to the desk stand. Fig. 6 is a'side View of the receiver support detached with the receiver sustained there on. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary pers ective View of the hook-depressing lever.

I have herein illustrated my invention as it would be applied to a so-called desk stand set but it will be readily understood that the'invention may be applied to other types of telephones by making suitable modification in the structural details.

In the drawings I have indicated at l a desk stand having the usual transmitter 2 and receiver 3, said desk stand having the hook 4 on which the receiver is normally hung, all as usual. The transmitter 2 is the stand or support purpose the stand is ears 5 between which the transmitter head,

pivotallyconnected to 1 as usual and for this provided with the two is received a hub 6on Specification of Letters Patent.

having extensions 11 Patented 10cc. 1, 1914. Serial No. 775 208.

tionally clamped against the op osite faces of the hub 6, thereby to prom e sullicient friction for holding the transmitter head in adjusted position. The cars 5 are shown as which form stops to limit the upward movement of the transmitter, all as usual in telephone desk sets. The parts thus far described are or may be of any known construction and form no part of my present invention.

My improved receiver support comprises a receiver rest 12 which may conveniently be made of sheet metal stamped intoa shape to fit and hold the receiver 3, and a supporting arm of novel construction by which the rest 12 is sustained by the stand or support 1. This supporting arm is shown at 13 and it is formed at one end with the laterally bent forked portion 14' that is adapted to embrace the pin 7 and to be clamped be tween the washer 9 and one of the ears 5. I will preferably provide the supporting arm 13 with the positioning projections 15, between which the extension 11 on the ear 5 is received said projections 15 operating to hold the supporting arm 13 in proper position and preventing it from turning about the pin 7. At the outer end the'supporting arm 13 is provided with the adjustable extension 16 which is adjustably and pivotally connected to the arm 13 and to which the rest 12' is secured. Any suitable way of connecting the extension 16 to the arm 13 may be employed. As herein shown the extension 16 is provided with the slot 17 and the arm 13 is provided with a clamping bolt .19 having clamping nuts 18 thereon, which bolt extends through the slot 17 and by which the extension 16 is rigidly clamped to the arm 13. Bv loosening the clamping nuts 18, the arm 16 mav be swung about the clamping bolt 19 intodifi'erent angular positions or may be adjusted longitud nally of the slot 17 so as to bring the rest 12 in the desired position. The outer end of the extension 16 is down-turned as shown at 20 and said down-turned end is provided with I the circuit and cut a clamping screw 21 which extends through a slot 22 in a down-turned car 23 extending from the rest 12. This construction provides one whereby the rest can be adjusted vertically relative to the extension 16 and may also be tilted about the clamping screw 21 as an axis. The two adjustable connections between the extension 16 and the arm 13 andrest 12 respectively provide means whereby the rest 12 can be adjusted into any position in which the user of the telephone finds it most convenient to have the receiver. Theirontedge 24 of the rest 12 engages the shoulder 25 on the receiver 3 and since said rest fits up around and em braces the side ter' will be firmly held in position, and cannot be dislodged from the rest by the pressure of the ear against the receiver.

My invention also includes means whereby t e hook 4 of the tele hone can be depressed thus cutting the te ephone out of the circuit without replacin the receiver on the hook. The advantage 0 this construction is that the receiver may always be retained on the rest 12 and the telephone may be cut into out therefrom by the mechanism 1 have provided the operation of which is more simple than that involved in taking the receiver from the hook and placing it on the rest and removing the receiver from the rest again;

In order to depress the hook 4' without hanging the receiver thereon I have provided what l have termed a hook depressor which is preferably secured to the supporting arm 13 and by which the book can be depressed or released. This hook de'-= pressor is herein shown as a hook-depressing lever 26 that is suitably ivoted at 27 to a support 28 that is secured to the telephone stand. In the'present embodiment of my" d the face 3'4 bearing invention this support 28 -is fastened to an sustained in the. supporting arm 13, said support 28 eing provided at its upper-end with a laterally- 1 31 which embrace the outerend bent torked portion 29 which engages t supporting arm 13 and is clamped thereto by means of a clamping screw 30. This-sup ort 28 is also preferably provided with two aterally extending arms of the stand 1, and which not only serve to hold the support 28 rigidly in its proper position but also assist in holding the entire support 13' in proper position. v

The hook-depressing arm 26 is shown as provided at its upper end with a thumb piece 32 by which it may be turned and at its lower end it is formed with the cam surface 33 adapted to engage the hook a when said lever is swung from 4 to the closed position Fig. 1. When the hook-depressing lever 26 is in the open position 1F ig. d, the hook twill he in its elewall of the receiver, the lat.-

and replacing it on the hook the rest 12st all times if manufacture and may the open position, Fig.

vated osition thus connecting the telephone into tie circuit as usual. When the hookdepressing lever is swung into its vertical position the cam surface 33 thereon engages the hook t and depresses the latter thereby cutting the telephone out of the circuit.

The hook depressing lever is formed at its end with a holding surface 34 which rests on the .to hold the lever 26 in its hook-depressing position.

- I will preferably provide an indicator for use in connection with the hook-depressing lever '26 to indicate to the operator whether the hook is depressed orv raised thereby to indicate whether the telephone is connectedor disconnected. "This indicator can con veniently be associated with the thumb piece 32 in such a way that when the lever 26 is raised the indicator will show that the hook is depressed and that. the telephone circuit is open, while when the lever is swung foris elevated and thatlthe telephone circuit is closed. 1

- There are various forms which this indicator might assume. As it is shown in the drawings, the thumbpiece 32 has associated therewith a block 35 provided with the two faces 36 and 37 on which arev the words Disconnected and Connected or some other words to indicate whether the hook is depressed or raised. This block is so constriicted that when-the lever 26 is in book depressing. position as shown in Fig.1 the T face 36-earryingjthe word Disconnected the' hook to rise thereby closing the circuit the word Connected will be visible. it will thus be seen that with my invention the receiver 3 may be left in telephone can be connected to or disconnected from the circuit by operating the lever 26.

My invention is simple and inexpensive to e applied to any telephone.

While I ferred embodiment of my invention ll not wish to be features shown. 7 v

1 Having fully described my'inventionwhat li claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. A telephone receiver support compris ing a supporting arm having one end forked and adapted to embrace the pivotal clamp-- ing pin which connects the transmitter to its supporting stand and to be clamped against desired and the wardly the indicator will show that the hook lid" iit

have'illustrated herein the prelimited to the constructural .tal posit-ion the ears of the supporting" stand, an extension pivotally and aiiljuslahly secured to said supporting arm for adjustment in a horizontal position and a receiver l'lfit Stt'lliULl. to the end of said extension.

2. A telephone receiver support comprising a sup 'iorting arm ha \ing one end forked and adapted to embrace the pivotal clamping pin which connects the transmitter to its supporting stand and to be clamped against the ears of the supporting stand, an cxtension pivotally and adjustably secured to said supporting arm for adjustment in a horizonand a receiver rest pivotally and adjustably secured to said extension.

3. A telephone receiver support comprising a supporting arm having one end forked and adapted to embrace the pivotal clamping pin which connects the transmitter to its supporting stand and to be clamped against the ears of the supporting stand, an exten sion pivotally and adjustably secured to said supporting arm for adjustment in a horizontal position, said extension having a downturned end, a receiver rest provided with a down-turned slotted arm Which engages the down-turned end of the extension and a clamping screw extending through said down-turned arm and down-turned end and adjustably clamping them together.

4-. The combination with a telephone set comprising a stand having two cars provided with extensions, a telephone transmitter and frictional clamping means for pivotally connecting the transmitter to the stand and holding it in adjusted position, of a receiver support comprising a supporting arm having a forked end which is frictionally held between clamping surfaces of said clamping device and which is provided with lugs to embrace the extension on one of said ears and a receiver rest secured to said arm.

5. The combination with a telephone desk stand, of a telephone receiver support comprising a supporting arm having provision for attachment to said stand, a receiver rest sustained by said arm. an arm secured to and depending from said supporting arm and a hook-depressing lever pivoted to said arm, said arm having fingers to embrace the stand, whereby said extension is maintained in proper position.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY W. MUNCH. Witnesses Louis C SMI'rI-I, THOMAS J. DRUMMOND. 

